Movement & Music in Kindergarten
Get Your Students Moving
THINKING IT THROUGH: Teaching & Learning In The Kindergarten Classroom
Genre Connections Lessons to Launch Literary and Nonfiction Texts by @2013 Tanny McGregor ISBN: 13: 978-0-325-03396-9 Heinemann/Pearson
Literary Resources to Support Music & Movement in Kindergarten
The Loud Book!
By Deborah Underwood & Illustrated by Renata Liwska @2011
ISBN: 978-0-547-39008-6 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
~a whimsical children’s book with excellent “sound-bits” to describe loud events during the day
Before John Was a Jazz Giant
By Carole Boston Weatherford & Illustrated by Sean Qualls @2008
ISBN: 978-0-8050-7994-4 Henry Holt & Company
Lesson Plans:
http://media.us.macmillan.com/activityguides/9780805079944AG.pdf
~outstanding story of the making of a jazz legend, John Coltrane; rich vocabulary that sings on the pages of a moving story
http://www.johncoltrane.com/biography.html
The Rain Stomper
By Addie Boswell & Illustrated by Eric Velasquez @2008
ISBN: 978-0-7614-5393-2 Marshail Cavendish Corporation
~SLAP! Clatter! BAM! BASH! BOOM ! walla! BANG! CRASH! Jazmin, the Rain Stomper outstomps the rain!
Because...
By Michail Baryshnikov & Illustrated by Vladmimir Radunsky @2007
ISBN: 978-0-689-87582-3 Atheneum Books
Leapfrog on Mondays; roll over on Tuesday; break-dance and slide on Wednesday; tap and spin on Thursday; run, flap, and swing on Friday; gallop on Saturday; fly on Sunday – Because...
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church @2002
ISBN: 0-439-12871-4 Scholastic
~a children’s favourite song illustrated with actions to learn and perform
SHOUT! SHOUT IT OUT!
By Denise Fleming @2011
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9237-0 Henry Holt & Company
“Mouse invites the reader to shout what he or she knows as they review numbers, letters, and easy words.”
M is for Music
By Kathleen Krull & Illustrated by Stacy Innerst @2003
ISBN: 0-15-201438-1 Harcourt Books
“An alphabet book introducing musical terms, from allegro to zarzuela.”
Blowin' in the Wind
Lyrics by Bob Dylan @1962 & Illustrations by Jon J Muth @2011
ISBN: 978-1-4027-8002-8
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/jon-j-muth
Lyrics from a timeless song are painted beautifully across the pages of this must have book
The Yoga Game
By Kathy Beliveau & Illustrated by Farida Zaman @2012
ISBN: 978-1-897476-72-7 Simply Read Books
“A fun riddle book introducing young children to the healthy practice of yoga.”
Oh Baby! The A to Z
Kane Miller – A Division of EDC Publishing @2010
ISBN: 978-1-61067-148-4
An alphabet book illustrated using close-up photographs of baby animals.
Dot
By Patricia Intriago @2011
ISBN: 978-0-374-31835-2 Margaret Ferguson Books
http://www.intriagodesign.com/index.html
http://us.macmillan.com/author/patriciaintriago
“Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day.”
Resource Centres & Internet Sites
Milton Community Resource Centre
http://mcrc.on.ca/thrc/index.php/thrc/resource-library4
Child Development Resource Connection Peel
http://www.cdrcp.com/rc/resource-connection
Toronto Public Health – Rainbow Fun Poster & Manual
http://www.toronto.ca/health/rainbowfun/physical.htm
http://www.toronto.ca/health/rainbowfun/parent.htm
Cosmic Yoga
http://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Fit 2 Dance